Plus. Im in finland where knock here was ruling supreme and now an economic trouble zone. Four people have been confirmed dead after two passenger trains collided in southern germany, the crash happened an hour south of munich and the trains were traveling on the same track and collided head on. About 150 people have been injured, ten of them are in a serious condition a and we are n berlin and dominick what is the latest information your have . That casualty and the death toll has risen to eight, eight confirmed fatalities in this incident, as you say it happened in bad aibling operated by the private company meredian and the rail track is owned by the german rail network but a private company meridian, the to trains collided z on on a single stretch of stretch around 7 00 local time so perhaps four hours ago and we understand there are many dozens of casualties, and its suggested that perhaps 15 people are critically injured, further 40 are severely injured and of course there are the other casualties here and more lighter injuries perhaps. We understand that the Authorities Say that perhaps 15 Police Helicopters and ambulances were sent to the seen and many other ambulances rushing to the scene when first this incident happened, the German Justice minister has been tweeting about her sorrow that happened and rescue workers who wushed to the rushed to the scene and what caused those trains to be on a collision course on a single track, the stretch of the rail track, that is something logic wouldnt dictate they shouldnt be in the same place at the same time and they suggest there is a signal failure but no confirmation and eight people are confirmed dead and many dozens of people are wounded. One assumes the trains were probably pretty full. Indeed. I do say peek time 7 00 in the morning and commuters are making their way on their usual business journeys and its the carnival holiday seasons and not many School Children on the trains and remains if that is, in fact, the case and these trains would have had many commuters indeed on what would have been a busy line and the question were what rolled them into collision and the authorities have not given an indication of what happened and it is early days and happened four hours ago and as it stands their main interest obviously is providing assistance to the people who have been injured and protecting information to the relatives of the injured and Going Forward and giving a sense of what has happened and what can be done Going Forward. Dominick thank you very much. Opposition leaders in syria calling on the International Community to help them push back an on going offensive by government forces, thousands of Syrian Refugees are trapped in the border with turkey and a small number allowed to cross and aleppo province forced them from their homes and the Syrian Military backed by russian air power pounding the ancient city of aleppo and areas surrounding it cutting off opposition supply lines and up to 300,000 people are trapped in the rebel held eastern part of aleppo and running short on food and fuel and they are offering aid to 30,000 civilians at the Border Crossing and lets cross live to where our correspondent zaina can tell us about the different battle lines in aleppo providence and before we get to that as specific of it the humanitarian crisis seems to be growing by the day and many people stuck at the border and the border in effect still in lock down. And undoubtedly people are suffering and, in fact, people started to leave the border town trying to reach the western countryside of aleppo because there is no more room for them, the camps are over crowded and saying people are sleeping out on the streets. This is an unfolding humanitarian tragedy and tens of thousands of people are on the move and the numbers will just grow if the government is able to close in on the rebelheld east of the city of aleppo because that is what they are trying to do, encircle the city, people started to leave but so far there has not been a mass exodus, this is the humanitarian situation and they are 2500 kilometers south of turkey and wants to reach the crossing and want to seal the border and have made it clear the syrian foreign minister said we will not accept a cease border until the Turkish Border is seal and the government advances continuing under a lot of pressure because its not just the government that is taking ground in aleppo countryside and gaining ground since offensive started and they too are very close to the border. Its their job to watch the skies, Civil Defense volunteers in the opposition controlled east of aleppo city are on alert whenever they hear the sound of jets. As First Responders to the scenes of attacks these volunteers have been busier than usual. Russian air strikes have intensified since the Syrian Government offensive started in aleppo a week ago and they are be sieging the rebel Held Neighborhoods in the city and defense volunteers say they are the only hope for those who may be trapped. Translator there are some people who are leaving the city because they are afraid of the siege. God willing it wont happen but regardless volunteers and families decided to stay because we need to help the people and fighters who chose to stay. Reporter civilians are increasingly helpless, doctors and nurses are overwhelmed. They workout of makeshift clinics because hospitals have been reduced to rubble after years of war. Medical workers are now preparing for the work and besieged other corners of syria where people diaphragm lack of food and mode sinl and eastern aleppo may be next. We will stay here and remain stead fast but the medical supplies are only enough for a month and a half. Reporter the armed opposition is just as defiant and use whatever weapons they have but their op pen opponents control the skies but will not withdraw. Translator we have the military plans to confront this. We promise our brothers in syria we will fight. Reporter thereare many front lines in the providence of aleppo, opposition lost territory in the countryside but they are still fighting back. With the help of russian and iran the Syrian Government is close to encircling the city of aleppo and troops approaching the border and want to cut the rebels lifeline and already managed to disrupt their supply lines. Opposition fighters are Still Holding ground and its strategic to cutoff the highway that links the city to opposition territories further west, this battle is not over but the opposition is under a lot of pressure, the threat of losing its heart land is real. They are facing a threat. In fact, what we understand from activists on the ground over the past few hours there have been russian air strikes targeting neighborhoods inseed aleppo city as well as the countryside and targeting roads, supply lines and what they want to target so the rebels are not able to reenforce force their position and holding a meeting in ankara and representatives of armed groups calling on factions to confront this assault and also appeal to foreign backers to provide them with weapons, sophisticated weapons to deneat the government but this is proving to be a very difficult fight and for the moderate opposition this is their stronghold in the north of the country. Zaina thank you, Iraqi Security forces say they entered the last remaining i. S. I. L. Stronghold in the east here and the village is now flying iraqi flag and forces moving forward to clear the rest of the village of fighters and explosive devices and the aim is to cut the supply roots to other parts for i. S. I. L. In fallujah and they still have people north of the city and we are joined from baghdad. How is the iraqi army managing to do this . Like you say they are going in house to house, clearing those who are booby traps and moving in further to try and secure the city but its not the Iraqi Security forces that will be in charge of the security of the iraqi police forces, this is a joint operation, its a huge success for the Iraqi Security forces because they were seen as being the weak link in the fight against i. S. I. L. But they have now taken control of the whole of ramadi but it has come at a very high cost for them. Over the last two months official figures state that 150 iraqi soldiers died in this operation but this is not the end of this. What we are seeing is pockets of i. S. I. L. Fighters in the countryside who are still able to mount attacks into ramadi and dont control any part of ramadi but they are in the countryside to the east and to the north and that is where the real challenges are now to be faced for the Iraqi Security forces and are going to the go arent and clear this and when it comes to ramadi specifically is to secure it and get people back eventually, when that will happen nobody really knows. A month ago had been if the iraqi forces were going to do this they were not going to try and do it to the beginning of the summertime and must be feeling particularly embolden after their successes if they change the timeline on what they want to do next. Well, the timelines i have to say have been all over the place. Last year this operation was supposed to take place and mr. Abadi said we couldnt do it because of the summer because it was too hot to fight. There have been a number of reasons why this operation has been so stalled in coming in. A lot of it has to do with tribal rivalries and progovernment fighters who said look its up to us, we need to be able to go in and clear this iraqi army so its up to us, we are the National Army and need to clear it of i. S. I. L. Fighters and there are a number of internal rivalries and the militias who say we are the ones who had the most success against fighting i. S. I. L. And we need it, all of that now has been sorted out. What is going on is the police are now in charge of ramadi but that is not the only one. Anbar is the biggest providence in iraq and fallujah is under control of i. S. I. L. And humanitarian crisis in fallujah and under siege for two months and no food is getting in there, iraqi army have not moved into fallujah and suspecting the governor of anbar will speak to talk about the problem about ramadi and if he comments about fallujah we dont know but what we are hearing from inside that city is that things are very dire and the residents inside and there is at least 5,000 families and 10,000 people trapped inside that city, for them there is no freedom and no respite yet. Thank you very much. Now the police in hong kong fired warning shots during violent clashes which began when they tried to shut down illegal food stars and they were set up for the Lunar New Year and we explain. Reporter bricks and stones from sidewalks thrown at police. Small bombs and fires lit on a street which just hours before was the scene of new years celebrations. A busy Commercial Area of hong kong turned into the setting for what many are now calling hong kongs fish bowl riots and it all started when a Government Department cleared the streets of illegal food that were selling the local delicacy fish bowl and members of group campaigning for autonomy for hong kong asked the public to support the Street Vendors and what began as a standoff soon turned violent with more than 300 people the street facing off with riot police, the government on Tuesday Morning condemned what it called mob activities and violent acts. Translator we can never tolerate that and police will spare no effort to arrest the rioters and meanwhile i would like to deliver my condolence to the Police Officers and News Reporters injured in the riot. Plus fire two gunshots in the air saying that an officers life was under serious threat. They say they are investigating whether the riots were organized rather than spontaneous and expect to make more arrests in the coming days. The street food celebration has long been a tradition of Chinese New Year and many say the protests are just about food and comes at a time when many people in hong kong are expressing concerns about their freedoms and tightening control of the Central Government in beijing, al jazeera. Okay, still to come for you here on the al jazeera news hour critics of the South African president repay every cent of taxpayers money he used on home improvements. Plus the first vote to cast in the opening primary of the u. S. President ial race and we will look at the candidates in New Hampshire. And Peyton Manning celebrates the denver bronco win and the quarterback will now be saying goodbye to the nfl. Develop of an apartment block that collapsed in the taiwan earthquake has been arrested, the the disaster claimed 41 lives and rob mcbride reports from the scene of the rescue operation. Reporter it is still the center of a major rescue operation and also become the focus for an investigation into building practices that could have far reaching consequences and there is increasing consequences that the design and construction of the complex contributed to saturdays collapse which was triggered by an earthquake. I was very sorry that we couldnt prevent it from happening. Reporter she is an architect who says lessons were learned after a much bigger earthquake in 1999. Since then New Buildings in taiwan have had to withstand earthquakes but the regulations dont apply to private buildings built earlier. I think most of the buildings built before 1999 have no guarantees to be seismic. Reporter what happened on saturday has raised concerns about the regulation of buildings like this one and how the developer was allowed to build it the way he did. He now has been detained by the authorities while attention focuses on other blocks built by the same contractor. This apartment block built around the same time and bearing the resume had cracks like local residents showed us and its scary this man told us and other cracks on walls and pillars had concern of what structural damage there may be underneath. Translator i worry of the safety for our 300 residents. Reporter back at the site of the collapse Civil Engineers work alongside rescue teams. Translator we will be providing a full report, of course we need to learn lessons from this tragedy. Reporter long after the rescuers have left the engineers will still be working here. Rob mcbride, taiwan. The north korean south light launched on sunday is tumbling in orbit rendering it useless according to the United States and have not stopped people celebrating the launch in the neighbors and says its a serious military provocation and the government has been closely monitoring the satellite and believe the north is trying out new Missile Technology and harry faucet has the latest now from seoul. Reporter south korea talking about the launch on sunday of the long range rocket and second and third stages appeared to separate successfully as planned but the first stage exploded over the sea to the west of the Korean Peninsula may have preventing from letting to much from the debris and nonetheless the Defense Ministry will be searching for debris to recover it and find out about the current status of the Rocket Technology and does say the indications are there have been some improvements to that Technology Since december 2012 and that the rocket engines may be stronger and the satellite carried by it is double the weight of the last time around and the maximum range of the rocket may be 12000 kilometers as opposed to 10,000 kilometers last time around. As for the performance itself the South Koreans are not saying and the u. S. Says they think its tumbling in orbit and is not useful as a satellite. There remains a big effort in terms of International Community to try to get sanctions through the u. N. Security council and were three separate telephones on tuesday between president obama and south korea and president abbi of japan trying to make sure north korea is punished for this latest action. Reporter japan voted for resolution condemning the north korea satellite launch and will have more sanctions on xi jinpi jinping. We will have sanctions on north korea and have issues of abductions, Nuclear Weapons and missiles and enhance coordination with the United States, south korea as well as china and russia for a Stronger Security u. N. Resolution to be imposed as quickly as possible. Billions of dollars being wiped off the stock markets today and plunged 5 on tuesday and the niki index fell 920 points led by major banks and Brokerage Firms and spooked by mark market tear turmoil in the u. S. Candidates have campaigns with t. V. Spots and tours around the country, the outgoing president has been barred from seeking reelection due to the nations six year term limit and we are from manila. Reporter the philippines is going to the cold in 1 two weeks with five president ial candidates and just started their campaigns not just here in the capitol of manila but across the country and they are on every National Newspaper and promised to aleve the years of poverty and corruption and deal with education and security. There are five candidates, two are s